Joerg Jaspert sent a report from the FTP Team meeting held from the 14th
to the 20th of September in Fulda. During the meeting, the team
implemented a
new
interface for managing Debian Maintainer permissions which will
allow them to deprecate the use of the DMUA flag. A huge improvement was also
made in pdiff generation: in the past the Debian archive provided diff files to
support incremental updates, but without great results. Thanks to a
rewrite of the code, it is now possible to merge older diffs together in
order to have a faster and more reliable final result: users now only have
to download two diffs instead of up to 56.
The meeting also provided the opportunity to promote Ansgar Burchardt to
FTPMaster; congratulations Ansgar!
As usual, the team would like to thank everyone who donated to the Debian
Project, as well as Office Factory Fulda for hosting the meeting.

Stefano Zacchiroli sent his usual report of DPL activities for September
2012: among others things, Stefano continued his work on the relicensing of
the Debian Open Use logo, which is now
dual-licensed
under LGPL3+ / CC-BY-SA 3.0. In addition, Stefano sent a
call for help for the Google Code-In initiative. In order to participate,
Debian needs both mentors and admins; if you're interested you can
volunteer on the soc-coordination mailing list.

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
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talks page?
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According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian Wheezy, is currently affected by 443 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 246 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
libxslt,
icedove,
hostapd, and
bacula.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
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